[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-01-05 14:30:
> In article <kc988l$4g1$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-01-05 13:51:
>>> In article <kc93mu$qnr$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-01-05 01:47:
>>>>
>>>>> Probably not but if you were going to market a product as a faithful VT
>>>>> terminal emulation, then it should faithfully emulate a VT terminal.  I
>>>>> haven't seen that in several issues I've had to deal with WRT customers
>>>>> that are running Reflection.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has 14 managed to get DECSWL and or DECDHL right yet?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do not know what that is and I have no idea about how to test
>>>> it or knowing if it they are "right" or not. There is an update
>>>> available to Reflection 14.1, I guess there are rel.notes.
>>>
>>> Sorry, that should have read DECDWL.  If they couldn't get DECSWL right,
>>> then they truly are hopeless.  Put the following into a command file and
>>> execute it.
>>>
>>> $ ESC[0,8]=%x1B
>>> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#6 This is DECDWL line of text"
>>> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#3 This is DECDHL line of text"
>>> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#4 This is DECDHL line of text"
>>>
>>> Try it on a real VT or in a DECterm if you don't see it rendered as line
>>> characters twice as wide (DECDWL-DEC Double Wide Line) and twice as wide
>>> and high (DECDHL-DEC Double High Line).
>>>
>>
>> Works in both the old PuTTY (0.58) and my Refl 14.0.
>
> It used to show normal width characters in some odd color for DECDWL and two
> separate lines in some other odd color for DECDHL when using Reflection.  I
> have never had any success using PuTTY.  I get a terminal window chock full
> of ...............  Pretty useless.
>
>

As I said, it works perfectly well both in an old PuTTY (seems to
be from 2005 according to the "about" box) and a Reflection that is
from 2006 or older according to it's "about" box.

Jan-Erik.